Hey folks,
so last week I received my Expedition Deluxe and set it up in the lounge between two posts to try it out and ended sleeping in it every night except one (when my son was trying it out with a view to maybe getting one for himself for his up coming cross Canada bike trip). But last night I took it outside and set it up in the back yard. It was a bit last minute and as a result I had an issue or two and more than a few questions.
Should I erect my tarp seperately to my hammock?
I'm thinking I would like to get the large hex fly and couple of extra sets of snakeskins so that I can have the hex in one set of skins as a totally separate component. Then I would have my std fly attached to my hammock but with its own set of skins so that I could skin it up when using my hex fly but also have skins on my hammock that would wrap std fly and hammock when not in use. Does that make sense?
Ridge-lines, will they stop my tarp being so "flappy"? I get the feeling that because my corners were staked into the ground and the only thing they had tension against were the two middle corners this allowed the tarp to flap much more in higher winds than it would do if there were a ridge-line in place that would essentially allow the pegged corners to tension against the whole length of the ridge-line.
Hammock tie-outs.
Should these be staked out to the ground or tied out to the tarp? Assuming of course that I'm just running with the std tarp and not the hex fly.
All I had for warmth last night was my old self inflating mat from my days as a ground hugging tenter and my sleeping bag. Tonight I'm going to add a foam cell mat into the mix to see if that helps in my efforts to be able to winter camp without having to go to the expense of an underquilt, wish me luck folks.
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